8 Side Hustles You Can Start This Weekend

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8 Side Hustles You Can Start This Weekend

As M$M has grown, I've genuinely started to believe in the side hustle for millennials. I completely understand that feeling of looking at lists of weird odd-jobs to do on the weekends and rolling my eyes.

Back when I was a band director working 60-80 hours per week, the last thing I wanted to do on the weekend was start working again.

But I have to say, my first real side hustle (this website) completely changed my life. I legitimately can work from wherever I want, and wake up every day excited about what I'm doing. That's freaking powerful.

Here's why side hustles are so useful

It would be absolutely irresponsible to suggest that your side hustle would turn into something like this site. I get it. But you'll also never know if you don't try something, right?

I've pounded this into people's heads for almost two years now – but there are only two ways to beat debt and get ahead financially. You can either make more money, or spend less. If you do both, you're a financial baller.

A lot of people can find the willpower to spend less money. The harder issue (in my mind) is making more, and asking for a raise/switching jobs for a higher salary isn't always feasible or effective if you work the normal 9-5.

You can monetize your extra time

Nothing on the side hustle list below is truly easy and you will NOT master any extra gig over one Saturday and Sunday time period. I think anyone that tries to sell you that is full of $hit. But everything on the list is something you can start researching or at least take the first steps towards right now.

Here are 10 side hustles you can start this weekend:

1. Buy and Sell Items on eBay

I watch my mother-in-law do a form of this all the time, and I'm amazed how much money there is in finding old crap and selling it. Sorry if that sounds crass, but she just sold a freaking DOOR last night for $30 cash.

2. Start a blog

This one is near and dear to my heart! I sat down at my in-laws kitchen table one night after work two years ago and just started writing. I had just paid off my student loans, and for whatever reason I felt like I had enough passion towards it to write a message to all of my friends on Facebook about not being entitled with money.

After I shared it, the pretty massive response (for me at the time) that I received made me realize I had a good message and could convey the crap out of it. So I started this blog and haven't looked back!

Now I make way more money than I ever thought I would at 28 years old. Blogs are really cheap to start ($60ish), and have a ton of potential if you have a good message!

3. Become a Tutor

I would not do this side hustle because I hated schoolwork, but I know so many of you out there are smart AF in all the categories that other people suck at. Also, as a former teacher I can tell you that parents have a lot of need for someone that can help their kids if they are too busy!

4. Pet-Sitting

If you love animals and are a responsible human being, pet-sitting would be an awesome thing to try! There are even apps out there like Rover that will connect you to customers in your area.

Pro tip: Volunteer at your local animal shelter and build up a reputation as someone who truly cares about animals. The animal community is generally pretty tight-knit, and if you provide a lot of value, you can get in with local veterinarians that will recommend your services (which means a good stream of new customers for you)!

5. Start driving for Uber

I drive a $6,000 car, so I can't do Uber unfortunately. But – I have used it several times and think it's an AWESOME side hustle to try out.

6. Rent out your car via Turo

Turo is pretty interesting, because it's basically in the same realm of Uber in terms of “ride sharing”. The difference is that you are literally renting out your car instead of driving someone else around! It's the AirBNB of cars.

Don't worry – Turo provides insurance for anyone who rents their car out to users.

7. Become a virtual assistant

Are you an organized person? Can you answer emails and do some light excel work? Maybe schedule out some social media posts? Being a virtual assistant might be a cool side hustle for you.

I can tell you from personal experience that a lot of online entrepreneurs need virtual assistants (I'm almost in the market honestly).

8. Social media management (for small businesses)

This is seriously no joke! A big part of the work I do online is providing marketing services for small businesses. If you have a big Instagram or Twitter following that you love managing, why not offer to provide that service for small businesses in your area?

You'd be surprised how many mom and pop shops want that aspect of their business taken care of but just don't have the time to do it.

Just…do something.

Side hustles don't have to be complex to make money. Sometimes just offering to do something that other people don't want to do can be lucrative. Also – please please please don't say you “don't have time” to try a side hustle (especially if you enjoy Netflix or video games every night).

If you want to make extra student loan payments or bring in some extra money, you can make the time. Trust me.

Comments

I’ve done a few side hustles, and they actually do work when you apply effort and do them continuously. I used to do freelance marketing work on the side, but had to stop due to non-competes, unfortunately. But I was able to rake in $200 before that doing things I already like doing, so that was awesome. 🙂

The great thing about side hustling today is how flexible they are. It used to be that if you wanted to side hustle, you needed to really spend some money and time getting started. And if you wanted to pick up a second job…well, then you had to work a set schedule in the evenings or weekends.

But today, you can do almost all of these side hustles whenever you want. I do a lot of bike messenger deliveries myself and it’s great. If I’m bored, all I have to do is turn it on and make a few deliveries on my own time. It’s easy cash in my pocket and I get some exercise too! Just think of a few years ago. We didn’t even have the technology to make this possible. Today, though, you can literally work whenever you want, for as long as you want. And if you find out a side hustle you started isn’t for you, you don’t really lose anything except for some time.

I did both Lyft and Uber when I was in San Francisco, but I didn’t have he same drive then thatI do now. I look back at how much I was making and I just think “how on earth was I still in debt and broke?!” Oh well, live and learn. I’m in an area of the country where, unless you do the blog side hustle or tutoring, there really aren’t too many (not in the winter anyway, we’re a seasonal area). But I have a job and a living situation where I make more than enough and don’t need a second job or side hustle!

Oh! And today, I paid off a credit card!!! It’s my 1st stage of becoming financially free and I feel like a weight has lifted off my shoulders! I can’t wait for my next paycheck to do it again! Especially since it’s to a credit card that’s been closed so I can’t even use it (in the long wrong, probably for the better lol). Thanks for listening and for the great articles! They really help!

For my side hustle, I took a job living on site somewhere as an overnight property manager. Was a harder gig to land, but I keep my day job too and save about $12,000 a year in my area not paying rent or utilities. I’ve been able to put money away in the bank and pay off a brand new car in less than two years.

We started building painted signs and wedding decor last September with about $50 in materials and about $600 tools (which I wanted even if the failed). That’s turned into a business that’s making $1500-$2700/month and allowed my wife wife to quit her job.

It’s definitely active income, but it’s opened doors for us. We’re also building passive income in the side through rentals.

As a very busy 16 year old girl, I’ve found that a great way to make money without even leaving my house is to take surveys online. I made around $30 in one month on cashcrate.com, and I’ve earned $11 in gift cards on swagbucks.com, and I know that if I put in even more time and effort, I’d be rolling in the money.

These are all really great ideas! The hardest part for most people is just starting something. Cut out some distractions in your life, stop making excuses for yourself, and go get your money! Contrary to popular belief, there is plenty of it to be made.

My side hustle or say hustle (didn’t have a job) was buying storage lockers at auction like on the tv shows. I retailed some of the items on eBay and then found electronic items in some of the storage lockers were a much better product to retail online. So I stopped buying storage lockers and have focused primarily on buying and reselling cell phones and electronics. Been in business since 2013 and profitable every single month since starting. Over 7 million in sales to date now without any employees other than myself. Although sometimes I wish I could have a good career job in something I liked, I will say that being able to call the shots and take a vacation or a day off whenever I want is worth a lot to me. I also love spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on my credit cards to buy inventory to get tax free benefits. I rarely every pay for flights and I get to stay at hotels I would never pay to stay at.

The coolest thing about starting your own side hustle is that there is really no limits as to what it can turn into. Since I have always been a good saver I haven’t really changed my lifestyle except for buying a nicer car. I got tired of driving old cars… but I still bought a used car for 6k less than new. I travel more but a lot of that travel is paid for by chase or Amex. So yes it is definitely possible to start a business and be successful but it takes a seed to start it. Once the seed is planted how big the tree grows depends on how you nurture it and how much effort you dedicate to it. I’m not sure how long I will be in my current business but fortunately I have saved a good amount of my profits and now am in a position to where I could buy or start another business or invest in another one. Which I guess is still part of the tree just a different branch lol.

I started tutoring high school students in math last year and it is AWESOME. I made around $6k the first year while building a solid client base. Now parent-to-parent/student-to-student referrals come in all the time and are my main source of new clients. I got pretty in demand so I raised my rates but still had no trouble finding about as much work as I wanted. This year I’m on track to make $10-11k.

The gig basically works like this: during the school year almost every day Monday-Thursday I leave my 9-5 job and go to 1 or (usually) 2 tutoring sessions. This year I opened up my Sundays and take anywhere from 3-5 sessions from late morning through early afternoon (at least I still get to sleep in!).

Tutoring has been such a great experience. I’m not only doing something that I really enjoy but have been able to develop some new skills as well. I’ve been thinking really hard about how I can continue to expand this, but haven’t been able to think of anything yet. I really don’t feel comfortable raising my rate at this point and am just about maxed out on the amount of time I’m committing. Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated.

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